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Kouba

KOUBA ABALAK CAMMING DEVICE | SET OF 6 PASSIVE CAMS

£70.00
£70.00
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A unique design of passive protection, designed to ‘cam’ into breaks and pockets with no moving parts. Affixed to a durable steel wire, Abalaks have a narrow V-shaped head and come in a variety of sizes, ideal for protecting horizontal cracks and small pockets, particularly quarry shot-holes, where the traditional cam does not fit.

Abalaks can be placed like a typical nut, however come into their own when used as a passive camming device. The Abalak set comes in anodised and non-anodised options and are colour coded on their stem for easy recognition of size.

Key Features

  • Unique Design - Offers solid, passive protection in horizontal cracks or pockets
  • Large Range of Sizes - Compatible for use in a wide variety of situations 
  • Anodised Option - Quickly identifiable of your rack or harness
  • Durable - A hard aluminium alloy construction with a strong steel wire 
  • Manufactured in Europe - Meets the CE and EN standard for climbing equipment
  • Full set of Kouba Abalaks covers sizes from 1 to 6

Specification

Abalaks, as with all Kouba climbing equipment, are CE 1015 and EN 12270 certified with the relevant certifications. Kouba have been making active and passive rock climbing protection for 20 years in Czech Republic, specialising in nuts, cams and abalaks.

Shipping

We offer tracked shipping with either Evri or DPD at the checkout, you will receive a tracking number once we have dispatched your order. Typically, orders placed before 4pm are delivered within 2-3 business days.

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Customer Reviews

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I love tricams but not these ones

I love using tricams because they are awesome with holes and horizontal cracks. My first one is with a sling instead of wired and that works really well. I have been warned with the wired tricams but thought I would still give these a try. May be I should have listened.

So far, I have only used the green one and it does work OK as a tricam. I could not use the smaller ones (white, yellow, orange) due the stiffness of the wires making it impossible to place them properly. The larger ones are probably OK but I have not come across a suitable crack for them yet.

In the description, it says they can be placed as nuts. This is not true. Again due to the stiff wire, they could only be used as tricams. Also, when deployed, the wire could spring against the rock and I wonder if the wire would be damaged with repeated use. Some of the wire holes have very rough edges that could cut the finger so not impress with the craftsmanship. But overall, the whole design is being let down by the stiff wires. Shame.

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Melanie Bonney
Kouba cams

These are fantastic, used yesterday at Brimham Rocks

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Jim Robertson
Sgurr Service

Great service, product and price from Sgurr.

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Frank T
Nifty kit

I wanted to try these out as a wired alternative to tricams. I've used them twice now, in horizontal breaks on gritstone. They are quicker to place than tricams, so good for a leader. My second found them slightly harder to remove, but only marginally. Great service from Sgùrr.

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Fiona Reid
Esoteric but very useful

It's too cold for trad right now but I've had a play with the Abalaks at the beach and they seem to work rather well in places where no other gear will work. Looking forward to trying them once temperatures get warm enough to rock climb again.

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PRODUCT DETAILS


Nut Size

Weight

Strength

Colour (anodised)

Range (min - max)

1

20 g

6 kN

White 

18 - 20 mm

2

20 g

6 kN

Yellow

19 - 26 mm

3

40 g

10 kN

Orange

21 - 32 mm

4

50 g

10 kN

Green

24 - 42 mm

5

80 g

14 kN

Blue

27 - 53.5 mm

6

110 g

14 kN

Red

31 - 63.5 mm